Friend or Foe?


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Millions of fans poured into the streets in celebration late last week, when the social networking megasite Friendster.com was awarded a patent on managing real-life relationships. Until now, relationships have been difficult to maintain - with no effective friendship tool firmly in place. With the Friendster patent, suddenly that task has become a lot less daunting.

No longer will the phone break-up suffice; people must now go through Friendster to start and stop any kind of relationship. Friendster executives, knowing what’s best for humankind, have vowed to sue the pants off of any friend who thinks they can manage friends without going through Friendster - this includes every aspect of any friendship, either online or in the living room.

On the same day, Friendster announced joint ventures with leading dictionary publishers to officially change the spelling of the word “friend” to “friendster” just to show how serious they are about running your friendships.

Source: Friendster
Domain: BeMyFriendster.com

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  1. 8 Comment(s)

  2. By Bennett Haselton on Jul 11, 2006 | Reply

    Does this mean I can avoid getting stuck in the “friend zone” by invoking patent law?

  3. By Mike Abundo on Jul 14, 2006 | Reply

    Five million Filipinos use Friendster.

    I’m telling them to switch to MySpace.

  4. By Shannon Clark on Jul 19, 2006 | Reply

    shouldn’t that be “ruining your friendsterships”…?

    :)

    Shannon

  5. By Just Mohit on Aug 6, 2006 | Reply

    “just to show how serious they are about running your friendships”…you mean “ruining” don’t you? ;-)

  6. By Ursula on Sep 5, 2006 | Reply

    Oh, this is just too funny!

  7. By jessica on Jan 5, 2007 | Reply

    Great one.Could anyone explain me what does this means to an ordinary user who has mutiple accounts in different social network site

  8. By AIM Checker on Jan 28, 2007 | Reply

    lol…very funny :)

  9. By Cat on Jun 29, 2008 | Reply

    That is a 5 star rating from me :D

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